INTRODUCTION Health Information Economy (HIE) is one of the broader, more complex, and challenging and yet important topics in the field of health science that requires the identification of its dimensions for planning and policy making. The aim of this study was to determine HIE concept dimensions. METHODS This paper presents a systematic methodology for analyzing the trends of HIE. For this...

Disturbance-mediated species loss has prompted research considering how ecosystem functions are changed when biota is impaired. However, there is still limited empirical evidence from natural environments evaluating the direct and indirect (i.e. via biota) effects of disturbance on ecosystem functioning. Oxygen deficiency is a widespread threat to coastal and estuarine communities. While the ne...

A fully automatic method for detection and quantification of ischemic lesions in diffusion-weighted MR images of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is presented. Ischemic lesions are manually segmented by two independent observers in 1.5 T data from 20 subjects and an automatic algorithm using a random forest classifier is developed and trained on the annotations of observer 1. The ...

Cooling for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is a novel and promising neuroprotective therapy that requires significant understanding of how cooling affects all organ systems and interventions used to treat systemic complications of cooling in an intensive care setting. As cooling is used more widely and has been newly introduced in neonatal units, continued surveillance of its use in c...

BACKGROUND Induction of hypothermia (a 4 °C decrease from baseline) improves outcomes in adult cardiac arrest and neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and may benefit other conditions as well. Methods used to implement or prevent hypothermia typically require skin contact with blankets or pads or intravascular access with catheter devices. The study was to evaluate the potential to induce ...

PURPOSE The characteristics of electrographic seizures in newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH) are poorly described. This retrospective, observational study provides reference data on the characteristics of seizures and their evolution over time in newborns with HIE receiving whole-body TH. METHOD The cohort under analysis included 23 ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether antepartum factors alone, intrapartum factors alone, or both in combination, are associated with term neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). METHODS A total of 405 infants ≥ 35 weeks' gestation with early encephalopathy, born between 1992 and 2007, were compared with 239 neurologically normal infants born between 1996 and 1997. All cases met criteria fo...

Background: The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of electrolyte imbalance in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Moreover, the correlation of this condition with Apgar score is evaluated. Methods: This prospective observational hospital-based study was conducted on 75 neonates affected by asphyxiation. Immediately (within ...

Background: Creatine kinase MB (CK-MB), which exists mainly in the cytoplasm of myocardial cells, is currently accepted as an indicator and has high sensitivity specificity for diagnosis injury. Objective: This study was aimed to estimate serum creatine (CK-MB) levels after asphyxia-induced injury neonates. Patients methods: 40 neonates were included this divided into 20 cases with perinatal h...